SOLUTION: Of 100 students, 42 took mathematics, 38 took chemistry, and 20 took both
Mathematics and chemistry. How many took neither mathematics nor chemistry?
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Question 268469: Of 100 students, 42 took mathematics, 38 took chemistry, and 20 took both
Mathematics and chemistry. How many took neither mathematics nor chemistry?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Draw 2 circles with an intersecting area.
Label the intersecting area 20(m + c)
Label the circles 42m and 38c
There are taking only math
There are taking only chem
taking neither
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